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2026

Head to head · Career pitching

David Price vs Chris Sale

In 2022 David Price has been worth 0.1 more wins. Both lines are computed from play-by-play on the same constants, so they are measured the same way rather than quoted from two sources.

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2005 begins at 2005, not at his real first game.

Career pitching totals. ERA, WHIP and the per-nine rates are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; FIP needs each season’s own constant and is left to the season table.
StatisticDavid PriceChris Sale
G400420
GS322339
IP2,143.22,246.2
W157159
L8297
SV312
SO2,0762,779
BB562518
ERA3.322.95
WHIP1.161.04
K/98.711.1
BB/92.42.1
HR/90.90.9
WAR40.860.0

2022 season

2022 pitching. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for ERA, FIP, WHIP and walks that is the lower one.
StatisticDavid PriceChris Sale
G402
GS02
IP40.15.2
W20
SO375
ERA2.453.18
FIP3.882.41
WHIP1.171.06
K/98.37.9
BB/92.01.6
FIP−9861
WAR0.30.2

Postseason

Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.

Every published postseason, pitching, summed with the rates recomputed from the counts.
StatisticDavid PriceChris Sale
G2313
GS149
IP99.146.2
W51
SV10
SO9166
BB2814
ERA4.625.79
WHIP1.201.33
K/98.212.7
BB/92.52.7

More head to heads

The same seasons, measured against somebody else.

How these are computed

FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page. To put these two beside a third, the comparison page takes up to four.